Vaccination rates among L.A. County Black residents up to age 49 remain below 50%, and among Latino residents in the same age group, below 60%.
COVID-19 vaccinations are lagging the most in younger Black and Latino residents of Los Angeles County.
“Our collective health is also threatened by these gaps, which give plenty of opportunity for high transmission and the emergence of additional variants that may be resistant to our vaccines. Additional surges are likely in the absence of better vaccination coverage,” Ferrer added. Unvaccinated Black and Latino residents are significantly more likely to contract the coronavirus compared with their white and Asian American counterparts, according to county data from August. Unvaccinated Black residents are also more likely to be hospitalized than other racial and ethnic groups.
In Orange County, deputy health officer Dr. Regina Chinsio-Kwong said there’s more work to be done getting vulnerable communities vaccinated. Even though cases and hospitalizations have begun to decline, she said, “now is not the time to relax. We really want everybody to get vaccinated if they haven’t already.”Unfortunately, vaccination rates in the areas in Orange County with the lowest vaccination rates “have not really changed as much over the last couple of weeks,” Chinsio-Kwong said.
Already in Orange County, the average age for those hospitalized with COVID-19 is now younger than in previous surges, Chinsio-Kwong said, which experts say is likely due to younger people having a lower vaccination rate than older people. The average age of an unvaccinated person hospitalized for COVID-19 was 66.5, far younger than the average age of a vaccinated person hospitalized for the disease, 84.
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